15 August 1760

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Theatre: Haymarket Theatre
Theatrical Season: 1759-1760
Volume: 4
Comments: The Twenty-Third Day. Daily Advertiser, 18 Aug.: Last Saturday John Sterne was committed to Newgate by Justice Welch, for the Murder of Mr Matthews, an eminent Surgeon in Brook St., Holborn. [Sterne had been an usher in Mathews' Academy, was discharged, but Matthews let Sterne live in Matthews' house for a long time, then expelled him and put his belongings on the stairs. On Friday 15 Aug. Sterne got two pistols and came back to Owen's Coffee House. Here] he waited three Hours for Mr Matthews, who was gone with a Friend to the little Theatre in the Haymarket and afterwards into Company at the Pewter Platter, a publick house in Cross St. [There Sterne shot Matthews.

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    *p?ohay The Minor. See 28 June. *c?ohay The Twenty-Third Day. <i>Daily Advertiser</i>, 18 Aug.: Last Saturday $John Sterne= was committed to <i>Newgate</i> by $Justice Welch=, for the Murder of $Mr Matthews=, an eminent Surgeon in <i>Brook St.</i>, <i>Holborn</i>. [Sterne had been an usher in <i>Mathews' Academy</i>, was discharged, but Matthews let Sterne live in Matthews' house for a long time, then expelled him and put his belongings on the stairs. On Friday 15 Aug. Sterne got two pistols and came back to <i>Owen's Coffee House</i>. Here] he waited three Hours for Mr Matthews, who was gone with a Friend to the <i>little Theatre in the Haymarket</i> and afterwards into Company at the <i>Pewter Platter</i>, a publick house in <i>Cross St</i>. [There Sterne shot Matthews.]

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    *p1760 08 15 hay The Minor. ^See17600628^.*c1760 08 15 hay The Twenty-Third Day. <i>Daily Advertiser</i>, 18 Aug.: Last Saturday $John Sterne= was committed to <i>Newgate</i> by $Justice Welch=, for the Murder of $Mr Matthews=, an eminent Surgeon in <i>Brook St.</i>, <i>Holborn</i>. [Sterne had been an usher in <i>Mathews' Academy</i>, was discharged, but Matthews let Sterne live in Matthews' house for a long time, then expelled him and put his belongings on the stairs. On Friday 15 Aug. Sterne got two pistols and came back to <i>Owen's Coffee House</i>. Here] he waited three Hours for Mr Matthews, who was gone with a Friend to the <i>little Theatre in the Haymarket</i> and afterwards into Company at the <i>Pewter Platter</i>, a publick house in <i>Cross St</i>. [There Sterne shot Matthews.]

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    Event: 30241 | 17600815 | hay | The Twenty-Third Day. <i>Daily Advertiser</i>, 18 Aug.: Last Saturday $John Sterne= was committed to <i>Newgate</i> by $Justice Welch=, for the Murder of $Mr Matthews=, an eminent Surgeon in <i>Brook St.</i>, <i>Holborn</i>. [Sterne had been an usher in <i>Mathews' Academy</i>, was discharged, but Matthews let Sterne live in Matthews' house for a long time, then expelled him and put his belongings on the stairs. On Friday 15 Aug. Sterne got two pistols and came back to <i>Owen's Coffee House</i>. Here] he waited three Hours for Mr Matthews, who was gone with a Friend to the <i>little Theatre in the Haymarket</i> and afterwards into Company at the <i>Pewter Platter</i>, a publick house in <i>Cross St</i>. [There Sterne shot Matthews.
    Performance: 61251 | 30241 | p | The Minor | See17600628.

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Title: The Minor
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See17600628.
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Work Title: The Minor
Publish Date: 1760
Author: Samuel Foote
Baptism: 1721
Death: 1777

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